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A message saying "can't find necessary packages" appears after trying to install it (dependency for another thing). It requests TCL 8.6.12 while the extra/TCL is 8.6.13-1. What to do?

broken for me since tcl package update yesterday

@ivanovp: Hi! Please make sure, that the downloaded sources are unique.

Please also quote all variables that represent directories which may have whitespaces in them (e.g. "${srcdir}" and "${pkgdir}"), or just remove the use of "${srcdir}".

The lines for the source array do not need to be broken (i.e. remove \).

There were a few other things wrong with the PKGBUILD and I have fixed them:

diff --git i/PKGBUILD w/PKGBUILD
index 84a203c..3a11b8c 100644
--- i/PKGBUILD
+++ w/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,42 +1,30 @@
 # Maintainer: Peter Ivanov <ivanovp@gmail.com>
 # Contributor: Hussain Jasim <hussainmkj@gmail.com>
 # Contributors: Flemming Madsen (arch at themadsens dot dk), Sébastien Duquette <ekse.0x@gmail.com>
+
 pkgname=tclx
 pkgver=8.4.4
-_tclsrcver=8.6.11
-pkgrel=3
+pkgrel=4
 pkgdesc="Provides OS primitives, file scanning, data records etc. for Tcl"
 url="https://github.com/flightaware/tclx"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv6h' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
 license=('BSD')
-depends=('tcl=8.6.11' 'tk' 'libtirpc')
-source=("https://github.com/flightaware/tclx/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz" \
-        "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/tcl${_tclsrcver}-src.tar.gz" \
-        "interperrorline.patch")
-md5sums=('7ab5ccc83a46b41e0f9e757d04001ecd'
-         '8a4c004f48984a03a7747e9ba06e4da4'
-         '3254188674bfa4cdf58605d0d69586d0')
-
-#prepare() {
-#  patch -d $srcdir/${pkgname}8.4/generic < interperrorline.patch
-#}
+depends=('tcl' 'tk' 'libtirpc')
+source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://github.com/flightaware/tclx/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz")
+sha512sums=('dcf9cbd08eae0cc4901e8e871a440e6c85d7d5ac923306206afaf0a1d931866ce3b91177d7b3a37e87a5cdcccb068ed7b9c76cb1a71a13f4f26cf204b8c42090')
+b2sums=('50123f95ed780c28dae9e2f0db956b81b559ee9ea33563b999f33a727c451374a63c0cba3012d4dd46df020426c7fdb3b04f932fc5b6ec742156e9dad81a7d3b')

 build() {
-  cd $srcdir/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
-  ./configure
-  cp /usr/lib/tclConfig.sh $srcdir
-  echo "TCL_SRC_DIR=$startdir/tcl$_tclsrcver" >> ../tclConfig.sh
-  [ "$NOEXTRACT" == 1 ] || ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-share \
-                           --enable-gcc --with-tcl=$srcdir
-  _tclsrc="TCL_SRC_DIR=$srcdir/tcl$_tclsrcver \
-           TCL_TOP_DIR_NATIVE=$srcdir/tcl$_tclsrcver"
-  CPPFLAGS+=" -I/usr/include/tirpc/"
-  LDFLAGS+=" -ltirpc"
-  make $_tclsrc || return 1
+  cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
+  ./configure --prefix=/usr \
+              --enable-share \
+              --enable-gcc
+  make
 }

 package() {
-  cd $srcdir/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
-  make $_tclsrc DESTDIR="$pkgdir" mandir="/usr/share/man" install
-  install -D -m644 license.terms "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/license.terms"
+  cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
+  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" mandir="/usr/share/man" install
+  rm -frv "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
+  install -vDm 644 license.terms -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/"
}

aarch64 architecture was added.

I have compiled this successfully on the aarch64 architechture with no changes to source code or build options. It would be very convenient if this could be updated in the MAKEPKG for building emacspeak (which depends on tclx) on the raspberry pi 4.

Willing to submit pull request, etc. if necessary.

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/tcl8.6.10-src.tar.gz was not working for me, but changing the source to https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tcl/Tcl/${_tclsrcver}/tcl${_tclsrcver}-src.tar.gz worked.

@Eothred: yeah, sorry, I missed that one.

Please bump the pkgrel variable as well next time the tcl version (or other stuff) changes.

@wingsuit: maybe you did not notice that the PKGBUILD contains md5sum of TCL 8.6.10. How do you handle different source versions? I don't think that ignoring MD5 sum is a good idea.

Can the tcl dependency be changed to tcl>=8.6.9? It makes updating harder if you have hardcoded versions like this.